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Definition of brave noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

brave

noun
 
/breɪv/
 
/breɪv/
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  1. the brave
     [plural] people who are brave
    • America, the land of the free and the home of the brave
  2. [countable] (old-fashioned) a native North American warrior
    3. Word Originlate 15th cent.: from French, from Italian bravo ‘bold’ or Spanish bravo ‘courageous, untamed, savage’, based on Latin barbarus from Greek barbaros ‘foreign’.
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